Re: Largest Sum of Consecutive Integers

Though, very interesting problem, I am interested in knowing what is the purpose or practical application of such problem.

--Artist

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Re^2: Largest Sum of Consecutive Integers by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Aug 31, 2006 at 17:48 UTC
Optimization. If you can choose to do a number of tasks, each with a certain profit, and you can choose which point you start and end at, find the start and stop points that will optimize your profit. --MidLifeXis	[reply]